Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-05

that what l now say shall be published
IN any newspaper IN the United States,
in Washington, il they wish, right uudei
the nose OF President Cleveland, so the
If THE is incitIng rebellion of insured.
ton, l can be indicted, wherever thai
paper Is published.
And il such Office holder or other per
sln, who desires TO test the question
can produce any lawyer who will advise
my indictment under this law, / will
pledge myself, and do now here pledge
myself, to hold myself in readiness to
meet such Indictment wherever and
whenever it can be found.
There is no better time, nor occasion,
for making such test if these gentlemen
really believe what they say. Hampden
once in a great crisis for England, test
ed for his people, for us, for all time, the
question of ship money and settled if
forever against Charles i and all English
Kings.
There ID now o great crisis for Dakota.
] envy the great, good fortune of tina.
man, whose lot it may be to stand for
our beautiful Dakota, in this her time
of need, and for her noble and splendid
people, and test for them in his person,
their rights and settle them forever.
So, for this purpose, Ihere o re-
peat publicly, what I said at Huron
that cit is our right, our privilege, end
our duty to see that government of the
people, by the people. and Tor the peo-
pie, shall be strictly maintained. in
every department., civil and military,
executive, legislative and judicial, feder-
al and state, even to the "out-lyipR
Dependence" of which we are n and
that these great principles, established
by the war, shall be respected, carried
ont, and lived up to, to the letter.
I'm the great coming battle of the peo-
pie against monopolies, and the undue
influence of corporations, in the increas-
ed cry OF Dakota for the natural right
OF self government, we need to remem-
Der, that government OF the people. by
the people and for the people, was the
great principle fought out; and esta-
blished by the war and earned for us by
the deaths of those comrades whom we
honor to-day.
SIN what l am about to say now, ]
claim to speak without any partisan
meaning whatever. For there are those
of Huron, aud this block where stood
| bnS HlR HhuI3 Gull JONI WAtiCpS tdht
when my W party was in power,
spoke just as severely OF the abuse Of
power by the Federal government, in
relation to the rights of the people ol
this territory, as l do now.
"In those days Democrats and Rspub.
1icaps stood with me; and Democrats
applauded most loudly when | criticised
the administration. l stand now where
! did then. If there are any Democrats
or Republicans, who were with me then;
who ore not with me now, the change
is in them not in me-.
81 now claim to speak for the people
OF Dakota. without distinction of party,
for the old soldier OF Dakota, without
distinction of party, whose interests are
suff srjng, whose industries are anguish
ing. whose enterprises are crippled,
whose litigants and ~suitors, are meeting
with o denial of justice in the court, who
are taxed without representation, whose
property interests are the sport and
within OF a mere department. clerk, whose
magnificent domain OF school land Ia
being despoiled and irittered away with.
out remedy, because, they are governed
by o Government, that is neither of the
people by the people, nor for the PEG.
gle.
1.-THE people OF Dakota are to-day nm
justly, aud illegally, and demonstrations
ally, denied every right, despoiled oi
every liberty, end afflicted with every
form OF injustice and tyrrany, named il
the Declaration OF independence. and re
beiled against by our tofeiathers of the
Revolution.
Shame on o Government, an admins
tsetion, or o department. that thinks
more of an insignificant strip of land
that cares more for the rights of q few
struggling Indians; that is more anxious
about sectional or partisan predomi
nance, that ii is OF most vital interests
the most sacred rights and the dearest
liberties of six Hundred Thousand
American citizens and freeman"
l now add to this, for the benefit o.
any official gentleman, who may wisl
to test the question, that whenever tht
people of Dakota are ready NJ d united
to set aside this temporary and colonial
EGovernment, which has no Ion r any
legal or Constitutional right H. exist
they have In their own hands the Lawful
powers to enable them to DO SO, without
the consent Of Congress and ! ADVISE
thats to use those powers.
/ advise them further, that in such 6
contest with Congress IN the words 81
the great Pitt. There is no attribute oil
the Almighty that would side with Con
gress.
/ also advise them that in no part o
such action do ! advise, or need there b.
any armed resistance against the United
States, nor a.sy disturbance OF the public
pea,e. That this will not be necessary
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shall be raised, between them and Con
gress mich shall go before the masters
ofCougrpss-tbe American People.
advise them further, that there
may be no mistake shout r1J
meaning, and that the question may b,
made broad enough to cover oil possible
ance with the precedents of Tennessee
fornia, that the people of Dakota would
be justified, legally and Constitutional,
and would commit no offence agains,
any 'aw OF the United States, if they
should, ct any time, by their own action
without any enabling act OF Congress
or any other consent of Congress, set mp
establish, and put into operation q State
Government, and set aside the temper
airy Territorial Government, which il
now exercising an injurious. and upiusI
and illegal, authority over them.
advise them that Tennessee did thi.
in l796. and that George Washington
then President, found nothing insured.
tionasy in their action, but approved O
it;
And that Congress then found nothing
revolutionary in this action, but ap,
proved of it,
I advise them that Michigan, in 1885
cid the same thing, and that jackson
then President, found nothing ~iusurrec.